Top 1200 Actors And Acting Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.

I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.

My belief about performance capture is that it's a technology which allows actors to play extraordinary characters. But from an acting perspective, I've never drawn a distinction between playing a conventional, live action character and playing a role in a performance capture suit. And from a purely acting point-of-view, I don't believe there should be a special Oscar category because I think it sort of muddies the waters in a way.

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company

Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.

Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe as it is of European actors in America.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

I always say what makes acting so much easier is when you get to act off of good actors.

In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read.

There are a lot of actors in the world, there's a small number that actually get to work as actors, and there is a tiny group of actors that are celebrated in the way that I have been. I feel incredibly lucky.

The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

I have the confidence to stay in my acting career for a long time because I have done all the titles other actors avoided.

I am constantly asked, 'What's the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?' The only answer I can give is the space - you adapt to the space. But acting is acting.

Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

Actors can be very precious about their work and their scenes, but I think good actors have a strong understanding of narrative and are very often not as precious about that stuff. They just can't be because they understand what makes for a better film, and that it's the job of the actor to work toward that, and then if you want you can go to acting class or workshops. But making movies is not workshops.

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.

Whenever I start an acting job and talk to my fellow actors, and I tell them I am from Nottingham, they guess I'm from the Workshop, it's so well known.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom

I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with the director.

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.

I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It's a small proportion of what I do, but it's always what people seem to focus on.

I like to go off the other actors in the scene, which kind of stinks when you're acting with someone who's not that great.

The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.

Insiders say Obama's pretty comfortable around actors. He should be. He has been 'acting' like he was born in Hawaii for a long time.

I admired actors like Dilip Kumar and Om Puri as a kid and acting was all I ever thought about.

'12 Angry Men' has a truly great collection of actors giving fantastic performances. It's an acting masterclass.

You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.

I think that all actors just want to continue acting, so if you get the opportunity to go out and do something again, you feel very lucky.

When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18.

I'm working with great directors and actors, and I'm getting to learn so much about the process of acting. I'm extremely grateful for these experiences.

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call indicating, when you twirl your mustache.

More than good co-actors, if you have understanding co-actors, it becomes easier to relate with them. Many actors become insecure and get personal, which is not right.

Actors are always weird about acting with their spouse or their boyfriend or girlfriend, but more because they think audiences will find it boring.

I do tend to like movies that challenge me, professionally. That's mostly on a smaller scale, when you have one or two or five actors, and it's all about the acting and not the camera.

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

I learned that the acting I really like is when the actors did a lot of bringing themselves, and where they're at at the moment, to the character.

But the focus for actors is always towards acting. It is very obvious that they don't need to have training in professional music.

There are level-headed actors and outlandish actors and financially responsible actors and financially irresponsible actors.

I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink the rest of their life. But there are several respected adult actors who were child actors that started very young. I'm going to try to model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.

My parents were actors. And so I was born in New York City, and when I was 7, they quit acting and went back to medical school at the University Of Chicago.

Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.

This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able to be something you're not and be natural and convince people on camera.

I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache.

There are two types of actors. There's the actors who can acknowledge that they could never do standup comedy. Then there's the pretentious ones, who believe that acting is harder than standup comedy. I definitely don't think it is. I also think making a comedy is substantially harder than making a drama.

Will Smith is one of my favorite actors, and he's also a triple threat. He successfully crossed over from music into acting.

I like to watch actors while they are acting, how they hold their attention when so many people around are there to distract them. It's difficult.

If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's an acting exercise. If you want to turn to someone else who's as tooled up as you are and persuade them to put their knife down because you'll use your knife, that's an acting exercise. Nine out of 10 delinquents are frustrated actors.

I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can.

I love acting. I can't imagine anything else that I would do. I know a lot of actors that really want to be directors and be musicians and all that stuff. I like acting and I feel like I'm good at it. It kinda makes me happy. It's actually pretty easy to me and I can't imagine doing anything else at this point because I've been doing it for so long.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying.